On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Benji York <be...@benjiyork.com> wrote: > Agreed. The opposite is a problem as well: one dependency requires an > older version and another needing a newer one conflict even though the > newer version would have worked just fine.
That's the case where an external override is all right. But again, the fact that I can't know which version is possibly working for a dependency is just crazy. > Until something changes, it's a "choose your poison" situation. I think it's high time for a change. My experience at dependency management, both for systemwide package managers - dpkg/rpm - and Java software (maven-ivy-etc) says we're currently doing it wrong in Python. I'll do a research in other environments - ruby/gems, perl/cpan, Haskell - and I hope we can work to change this. -- Alan Franzoni -- contact me at pub...@[mysurname].eu _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
